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The fact that an average gay man in a Marvel movie makes news as newsworthy shouldn't be surprising. It's the same approach Disney took by making LeFou gay in Beauty and the Beast and saying he was going to have a "gay moment" when in reality he just very coyly longed for Gaston.

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But it felt true to her character that she would sacrifice herself in the end, and like a willing choice she made rather than in typical fridging situations, where the female character is murdered by the villain to raise the stakes for the hero. Any of the times that Hawkeye knocked her down or whatever, all she would have had to do was hesitate for a split second and he would have been the one to die instead.

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Anthony Russo added: "That scene was important to us in telling the story of the larger world. The Marvel Cinematic Universe has made a visible push in recent years to embrace diversity. In comparison, the blink-and-you'll-miss-it mention of a same-sex relationship is hardly worth shouting about.